The Disaster Film Trivia Questions

'The Towering Inferno' was nominated for Best Picture but did not win; it lost to 'The Godfather Part II' at the 1975 Oscars.

'San Andreas' is a purely fictional story with no direct basis in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake or any real event.

In the 2009 film, a massive eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera is depicted as part of the global catastrophe sequence.

Most tornado scenes were created with visual effects and miniature models; location filming occurred in several states, not only Oklahoma.

Paul Gallico's 1969 novel 'The Poseidon Adventure' was adapted into the 1972 disaster film, which became a landmark of the genre.

Sensurround was a special low-frequency audio system developed for 'Earthquake' to simulate seismic rumbles in theaters.

To avoid competing projects, the studios merged their films into one, sharing production and distribution rights for the 1974 movie.

The film was an original screenplay by Roland Emmerich and Jeffrey Nachmanoff; Michael Crichton's 'State of Fear' is unrelated.